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Exmoor Zoo welcomes pair of world's smallest foxes



A pair of the world's smallest foxes have recently arrived at a zoo in Devon.

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Otherwise known as the desert fox, their prey includes small rodents, snakes, lizards and insects such as grasshoppers and locusts.

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